Mind Is a Myth Quotes

“Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow.”
― U.G. Krishnamurti, Mind is a Myth

“*Only if you reject all the other paths can you discover your own path.”
― U.G. Krishnamurti, Mind Is a Myth: Conversations With Ug Krishnamurthi

“Wanting has to go. Wanting to be free from something that is not there is what you call "sorrow.” Wanting to be free from sorrow is sorrow. There is no other sorrow. You don't want to be free from sorrow. You just think about sorrow, without acting. Your thinking endlessly about being free from sorrow is only more material for sorrow. Thinking does not put an end to sorrow. Sorrow is there for you as long as you think. There is actually no sorrow there to be free from. Thinking about and struggling against "sorrow" is sorrow. Since you can't stop thinking, and thinking is sorrow, you will always suffer. There is no way out, no escape.”
― U.G. Krishnamurti, Mind Is a Myth: Disquieting Conversations with the Man Called U.G.

“If you have the courage to touch life for the first time, you will never know what hit you. Everything man has thought, felt and experienced is gone, and nothing is put in its place.”
― U.G. Krishnamurti, Mind Is A Myth Conversations with U.G. Krishnamurti

“You say that I am living in illusion. But poverty, work, war, they are not illusions. Are they? In what sense am I being deluded? What you experience through your separative consciousness is an illusion. You can't say that falling bombs are an illusion. It is not an illusion, only your experience of it is an illusion. The reality of the world that you are experiencing now is an illusion. That is all I am trying to say. If you say that”
― U.G. Krishnamurti, Mind Is a Myth: Disquieting Conversations with the Man Called U.G.

“Nature’s laws know no reward, only punishment. The reward is only that you are in harmony with nature.”
― U.G. Krishnamurti, Mind Is a Myth: Disquieting Conversations with the Man Called U.G.

“I tell you, when you stop doing things out of hope and the desire for continuity, all you do along with it stops. You will stay afloat.”
― U.G. Krishnamurti, Mind Is a Myth: Disquieting Conversations with the Man Called U.G.

“Sorrow is there for you as long as you think. There is actually no sorrow there to be free from. Thinking about and struggling against "sorrow" is sorrow. Since you can't stop thinking, and thinking is sorrow, you will always suffer. There is no way out, no escape.”
― U.G. Krishnamurti, Mind Is a Myth: Disquieting Conversations with the Man Called U.G.

“Courage is not an instrument or quality you can use to get somewhere. The stopping of doing is courage. The ending of tradition in you is courage.”
― U.G. Krishnamurti, Mind Is a Myth: Disquieting Conversations with the Man Called U.G.

“What is the difference whether or not you find this freedom, this enlightenment? You will not be there to benefit from it. What possible good can this state do you? This state takes away everything you have. That is why they call it jivanmukti—living in liberation. While living, the body has died.”
― U.G. Krishnamurti, Mind Is a Myth: Disquieting Conversations with the Man Called U.G.

“Not answers, but the ending of questions, is the important thing.”
― U.G. Krishnamurti, Mind Is a Myth: Disquieting Conversations with the Man Called U.G.

“Because the unique individual cannot reproduce himself either physically or spiritually, nature discards him as useless. Nature is only interested in reproducing, and from time to time throwing out a “sport” or unique specimen. This specimen, not able to reproduce itself, is finished with evolution, and is not interested in making of itself a model for others.”
― U.G. Krishnamurti, Mind Is a Myth: Disquieting Conversations with the Man Called U.G.

“I don’t have any moral position. Society, which has created all these sociopaths, has invented morality to protect itself from them. Count me out.”
― U.G. Krishnamurti, Mind Is a Myth: Disquieting Conversations with the Man Called U.G.

“Every thought that is born has to die. It is what they call the death wish. If a thought does not die, it cannot be reborn. It has to die, and with it you die. But you don’t die with each thought and breath. You hook up each thought with the next, creating a false continuity. It is that continuity that is the problem.”
― U.G. Krishnamurti, Mind Is a Myth: Disquieting Conversations with the Man Called U.G.

“All your actions, whether thinking of God or beating a child, spring from the same source—thinking. The thoughts themselves cannot do any harm. It is when you attempt to use, censor, and control those thoughts to get something that your problems begin. You have no recourse but to use thought to get what you want in this world. But when you seek to get what does not exist—God, bliss, love, etc.—through thought, you only succeed in pitting one thought against another, creating misery for yourself and the world.”
― U.G. Krishnamurti, Mind Is a Myth: Disquieting Conversations with the Man Called U.G.

“Thought creates the space between the thinker and his thoughts, and then tells himself, “I am looking at my thoughts.”
― U.G. Krishnamurti, Mind Is a Myth: Disquieting Conversations with the Man Called U.G.

“Belief is like any other habit, the more you try to control and suppress it, the stronger it becomes.”
― U.G. Krishnamurti, Mind Is a Myth: Disquieting Conversations with the Man Called U.G.

“You are living. As soon as you introduce the question “how to live?” you have made of life a problem. “How” to live has made life meaningless. The moment you ask “how,” you turn to someone for answers, becoming dependent.”
― U.G. Krishnamurti, Mind Is a Myth: Disquieting Conversations with the Man Called U.G.

“No sir, I feel that I am benefited by talking with you. Are you saying that no religious commitment, no spiritual path, no sadhana is necessary? I say no. Somebody else says yes. Where does that leave you? Understanding your goal is the main thing. To achieve that goal implies struggle, battle, effort, will, that is all. There is no guarantee that you will reach your goal. You assume the goal is there. You have invented the goal to give yourself hope. But hope means tomorrow. Hope is necessary for tomorrow, not for today.”
― U.G. Krishnamurti, Mind Is a Myth: Disquieting Conversations with the Man Called U.G.

“The only way the past can survive and maintain its continuity is through the constant demand to experience the same thing over and over. That is why life has become a bore. Life has become boring because we have made of it a repetitive thing. So what we mistakenly call the present is really the repetitive past projecting a fictitious future. Your goals, your search, your aspirations are cast in that mold.”
― U.G. Krishnamurti, Mind Is a Myth: Disquieting Conversations with the Man Called U.G.

“You can’t experience anything except through thought. You can’t experience your own body except through the help of thought. The sensory perceptions are there. Your thoughts give form and definition to the body, otherwise you have no way of experiencing it. The body does not exist except as a thought. There is one thought. Everything exists in relationship to that one thought. That thought is “me.” Anything you experience based on thought is an illusion.”
― U.G. Krishnamurti, Mind Is a Myth: Disquieting Conversations with the Man Called U.G.

“Your wanting something that does not exist is the root of your problem. Transformation, moksha, liberation, and all that stuff are just variations on the same theme: permanent happiness. The body cannot take that. The pleasure of sex, for instance, is by nature temporary. The body can’t take uninterrupted pleasure for long, it would be destroyed. Wanting to impose a fictitious, permanent state of happiness on the body is a serious neurological problem.”
― U.G. Krishnamurti, Mind Is a Myth: Disquieting Conversations with the Man Called U.G.